Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Michael Byers
• Peter Campbell
• Robert Crawford
• Jenny Diski
• James Francken
• Ian Glynn
• Gerald Hammond
• Jeremy Harding
• Thomas Jones
• August Kleinzahler
• Adewale Maja-Pearce
• Michael Peel
• Peter Robins
• Raja Shehadeh
• Daniel Soar
• John Upton
• Slavoj Žižek

Contents

• Michael Byers
  Jumping the Gun: Against Pre-Emption

• Letters
  John Upton, Murray Sayle, A. Mackenzie Peers, Julian Preece, Irving Kristol, Nick Groom, Richard Storey, Edwin Morgan, Martin Ward, John Batten, Brian Tilbury

• Jeremy Harding

  • Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam by Gilles Kepel, translated by Anthony F. Roberts

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: Lucian Freud

• Thomas Jones

  • Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester

• James Francken

  • Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

• Slavoj Žižek

  • Lenin by Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, translated by George Holoch

• Robert Crawford

  • Robert Burns: Poems edited by Don Paterson
  • The Canongate Burns: The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns edited by Andrew Noble and Patrick Scott Hogg

• Daniel Soar
  Short Cuts: Pop Poetry

• Gerald Hammond

  • The Book: A History of the Bible by Christopher de Hamel
  • The Wycliffe New Testament 1388 edited by W.R. Cooper

• John Upton
  ‘Wicked. Sweet. Nice one’: Ezekiel in Custody

• Adewale Maja-Pearce

  • In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy by Ken Wiwa
  • This House Has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis by Karl Maier
  • The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War by Stephen Ellis

• Michael Peel
  In Abuja: in Nigeria

• Ian Glynn

  • The Fever Trail: The Hunt for the Cure for Malaria by Mark Honigsbaum

• Jenny Diski

  • The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet, translated by Adriana Hunter

• August Kleinzahler
  Two Poems

• Peter Robins

  • Depraved Indifference by Gary Indiana

• Raja Shehadeh
  Diary: in Ramallah